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Residency Faculty and Staff

Residency Faculty

Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPH

Residency Director

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Associate Dean for Practice

Director, Bioterrorism Preparedness Initiative

Research Interests: applied infectious disease epidemiology, outbreak control, and surveillance in the practice setting, clinical preventive medicine, domestic family planning and women's health, tuberculosis/STD programs and control.

Ronald M. Davis, MD, MA

Chair, Residency Advisory Committee

Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology

Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Henry Ford Health System

President, American Medical Association

Research interests: tobacco control, clinical preventive services, public policy related to health promotion and disease prevention, issues related to scientific publication (e.g., peer review, ethical issues such as conflict of interest).

Ana Diez-Roux, MD, PhD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology
Research interests: neighborhoods and cardiovascular risk in a multiethnic cohort, long-term exposure to airborne particulates and subclinical atherosclerosis, lifecourses SES, social context and cardiovascular disease.

Alfred Franzblau, MD

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Ergonomics

Research interests: work-related musculoskeletal disorders, biological monitoring of chemical exposures, preventive neurological disease and preventive respiratory disease.

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, MPH

Associate Professor of Epidemiology

Research interests: social and economic determinants of population health, epidemiology of mental health and substance misuse, consequences of disaster and mass trauma.

David Garabrant, MD, MPH

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Professor of Epidemiology

Research interests: occupational cancer epidemiology and cancer prevention. Specific topics under investigation are chemical risk factors for pancreas cancer, asbestos and colon cancer, and the role of physical activity in colon cancer.

Stephen Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor in Internal Medicine, Genetics, and Epidemiology
Research interests: molecular epidemiology of colorectal cancer; genetic and environmental contributions to multiple primary melanoma; molecular markers, health behaviors, and comorbidities as predictors of tumor recurrence.

Howard Hu, MD, MPH, ScD

Chair of Environmental Health Sciences
Research interests: clinical syndromes such as idiopathic environmental intolerances (chemical sensitivities); emerging children's environmental health issues such as neonatal exposure to phthalates.

Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy
Research interests: health systems scale-up and financing in developing countries, reduction of maternal mortality through systems reforms, human resources for health, and measuring the effectiveness, equity, and efficiency of health systems.

Paula Lantz, PhD, MS

Professor and Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy

Director, RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Research Professor, Institute for Social Research

Research interests: longitudinal national study of social disparities in health, population-based study of breast cancer treatment, study of policy issues in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.

Arnold Monto, MD

Professor of Epidemiology

Research interests: occurrence, etiology and prevention of infectious diseases in industrialized and developing countries. Frequency and cause of respiratory infections in families living in the community, and in factors which predict the occurrence and prevention of these illnesses. Research and training to respond to bioterrorist threats.

Hal Morgenstern, PhD

Professor and Chair of Epidemiology
Research interests: environmental and occupational health, clinical research, psychosocial aspects of disease, epidemiologic methods, and the quality of health care-and health problems-including cancers, musculoskeletal conditions, neuropsychiatric disorders, injuries, and cardiovascular disease.

Dean Sienko, MD, MS

Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Health Officer and Medical Director of Ingham County Health Department

Amr Soliman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

Research interests: international cancer epidemiology.

Staff Contacts

Angela Beck, MPH, CHES

Program Manager

Office of Public Health Practice

109 Observatory Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

(734) 615-6041; Fax: (734) 764-9293

ajbeck@umich.edu

Holly Szafarek

Program Secretary
Office of Public Health Practice
109 Ovservatory Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 936-5333; Fax: (734) 764-9293
szafarek@umich.edu